When Jacqueline Richards was “glass ceilinged” at Delta Hotels, she went looking for other options. She worked for four years to open the Holiday Inn Select Hotel & Suites in Kanata, and then decided to set out on her own. The fourth-generation single mother had previous work experience creating mortgage strategies for clients and decided to run with it – straight to the bank.

As a woman, Richards’ path to self-employment wasn’t always easy. In fact, when she went to take out her own mortgage the man helping her asked when her husband would be arriving to the meeting, and if not him, her father.

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